Hack 44 Try Accepting Payments in a Bogus Currency 
Weird out your pals and amuse your customers
with PayPal's devilishly clever error
message.
PayPal
allows you to send and receive
payments in five currencies: U.S. dollars (USD),
Canadian dollars (CAD), pounds sterling
(GBP), euros (EUR), and
Japanese yen (JPY). If you are creating your own
PayPal buttons, you'll need to indicate one of these
five currencies in the button's markup. If you make
a mistake here, your prospective buyers will be greeted with a
confusing error message.
However, you might want to turn this error on its ear by working it
into the storyline of your web site. If you offer products to Harry
Potter fans, for example, you might want to put up a button like
this:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="burchell@inebraska.com">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Monster Book of Monsters">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="MboM">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="49.00">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code"
value="sickles">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but23.gif" border="0"
name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
</form>
Your customers will see this message:
This recipient does not accept payments denominated in sickles.
Please contact the seller and ask him to update his payment receiving
preferences to accept this currency.
The useful lesson: if your customers contact you asking you to change
your payment preferences to accept CAN,
CND, or YEN (none of which are
valid), check your button code.
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